1887 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1887 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Limerick (1st win)
Provincial Champions
Championship statistics
1888 →

The 1887 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is the first edition of GAA's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament, played between 12 counties of Ireland. The tournament featured club teams who represented their respective counties after their county championship. The 21 a-side final was between Commercials of Limerick and Young Irelands of Louth. The final was played in Beech Hill, Clonskeagh (not Bird Avenue) on April 29, 1888, with Commercials winning by 1-4 to 0-3. Unlike later All-Irelands, there were no provincial championships and it was an open draw.

Format

The 1887 championship was the only to be held as an open-draw knockout tournament, without provincial championships.

Representative clubs

From 1887 until 1891 the club champions represented the whole county. In the very first All-Ireland championship the participating counties were represented by the following clubs:

County	Club
Clare
Cork
Kilkenny	Kilmacow
Limerick	Commercials
Louth	Dundalk Young Irelands
Meath	Dowdstown
Tipperary
Waterford	Ballyduff Lower
Wexford	Castlebridge

Results

First Round

Louth v Waterford

24 July 1887
First Round

Louth	1-8-2 – 0-4-1	Waterford
Charles McAlester (goal)

Elm Park, Merrion, Dublin
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Willie Halpin (Clare)

Limerick v Meath

24 July 1887
First Round

Limerick	3-2 – 0-2	Meath

Elm Park, Merrion, Dublin
Attendance: 10,000

Kilkenny v Cork

24 July 1887
First Round

Kilkenny	0-4 – 0-0	Cork

Dungarvan

Tipperary v Dublin

N/A
First Round

Tipperary	w/o – scr.	Dublin

Wexford v Galway

N/A
First Round

Wexford	w/o – scr.	Galway

Clare v Wicklow

N/A
First Round

Clare	w/o – scr.	Wicklow

Second Round

Louth v Wexford

28 August 1887
Second Round

Louth	0-7-3 – 0-5-3	Wexford

St. Patrick’s club grounds, Kilmainham
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: J.K. Bracken (Tipperary)

Tipperary v Clare

1887
Second Round

Tipperary	W – L	Clare

Limerick v Kilkenny

28 August 1887
Second Round

Limerick	1-10 – 1-10	Kilkenny

St. Patrick’s club grounds, Kilmainham
Attendance: 5,000

Limerick v Kilkenny

1887
Second Round Replay

Limerick	W – L	Kilkenny

Bansha

Semi-Final

Limerick v Tipperary

11 March 1888
Semi-Final

Limerick	W – L	Tipperary

Bohermore

Final

Limerick v Louth

29 April 1888
Final

Limerick	1-4-0 – 0-3-0	Louth

Beech Hill, Clonskeagh, Dublin
Referee: John Cullinane

Winning Team

R. Breen
E. Casey
W. Cleary
D. Corbett
T. Fitzgibbon
P. Kelly
J. Hyland
P.J. Corbett
T. Keating
T. Kennedy
J. Kennedy
W. Gunning
P. Keating
W. Spain
R. Normoyle
M. O'Brien
E. Nicholas
T. McNamara
M. Slattery
J. Mulqueen
P. Reeves

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

No Provincial championships in the first year of the championship.

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